Tuesday, March 10, 2009

So I'm comin' up on 200 posts - which really, really surprises me. I've been doing this blogging gig since January 2008, but I didn't get REALLY into it til about nine months ago. (Read: that's when it became an anti-depressant ....)

And since I completely ignored my 100th post, a giveaway is in order.

I'm making up a whole "Best of Brazil" pacakge, which will include:

#1 neccessity for every tourist - Havaianas: The Brazilian flip-flop. They come in all colors - the winner can choose size and color.

Maracuja (you would call it passion fruit) juice mix. You can't get it in the States, and it is my favorite juice EVER.

Pao de quiejo mix - these are those 'cheese balls' you can get at Tucanos. Yummmmm

Brazilian sweets. Their chocolate is soooooo divine. (And no, Tamra, you can't enter more than once.)

Other Brazilian souvineer-y stuff as chosen by me!

I reserve the right to take a while to send it - I'm too cheap to send it from Brazil, and I'll make my husband do it next time he goes to the States for work.

Now for the REAL challenge.

I'm curious to see how many comments I'll get - my statcounter recently topped 300, and I want to meet all you lurkers who drop by here, invisible. So I will ONLY send a package out if I get past 100 - so it will be in your best interest to tell your friends! (Don't forget to leave your email address in the comment if it's not in your profile.)

If, by some miracle, I pass 200 comments, I'll send TWO packages. Be amazed. Be very amazed. (Comments will be closed Friday the 20th!)

144 comments:

I will be the first one. I love giveaways. I hope who ever gets it loves it. I sure could use the flip flops. Due to cancer my feet swell real bad and I can only wear certain shoes. flip flops have become my best friend in the summer

Ok, everything looks wonderful!!!!! How about if I don't win (since I am your cousin it is ok to randomly choose someone else :)) you still bring me some of those things the next time you come and I will reemburse you. Now that you have showed them to me I want them :)

How are you going to send me the flag eye? I want this give away. Please? Please? Please? I'm going to shout you out on my sidebar as like Vanessa. Because I want to be like her and also in hopes it will sway you or the random number generator to pick me.

I just found your blog yesterday through a friend of mine and i'm HOOKED! I lived in the Azores a few years ago and have some portuguese experiences of my own; my dad went on his mission to Brazil. I am going to be sending him a link to your blog!

Thanks for the laughs and the confirmation that motherhood IS a good thing!

Do I count as a "lurker?" I read your blog everyday and only post comments once in a while! So you are randomly picking a winner? What a tough choice - I love all your bloggers and feel like I know them! Lots of love, Mom P.S. Love the picture of Geny - say Hi and give her a hug for me.

I've had you on my Google Reader since a link from Reva a while back. I'm Canadian, but I also used to be an expat; you never lose your homeland pride. I would love love some Brazilian goodies if you should pick me! book_betty@hotmail.com

even if i don't win, will you please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please bring me some pao de quejo? and flip flops? and anything else? since i didn't ever make it there, which i'll regret for the rest of my life.

Oh my goodness, I would kill to win this! My hub's used to have awesome brazilian flip flops (he served his mission in Florianopolis) and they broke a couple years ago.... sad! We LOVE your blog and want to get down there soooo bad!

Awesome! I too am a lurker, but I love your blog. You are great. My hubster served in Goiana and loves everything Brazil! He would move there in a heartbeat if I would let him. He absolutely loves Havaianas and Maracuja...I would love to win this for him!nellie_n_mo@hotmail.com

Every time me and my hubby go to our local Brazilian place (Braza Grill), I completely load up an entire plate with those "cheese balls"! :) Can't imagine tasting some straight from the source! :) Please add me to your list. katipenner@peoplepc.com

I am mildly jealous that you get to live outside the US. Then I remember all the things we have here that (if its like Central America) are almost impossible to find there. Like tampons. Ok that alone is enough to make me glad to live in the US.

So since I will probably never get to Brazil I would love to have a little part of it! My mom looks at your blog too and she calls me laughing all the time about some of the funny things you say! Keep up the funnies and your boys are adorable!

Pick me pick me! I don't really have a good reason except that it would be nice to see somethings from Brazil. I have never been there, but I've heard that it's a nice place. I think that it's wonderful that you are spreading the Brazilian love.

My husband served his mission in Brazil and would love those things! I think I could suffer through the chocolate...for him. ;o) I put your button on my blog. It's just so cool looking, how could I not?! Happy 200 posts!

I love, love, love, reading your blog! The funniest ever. I have a co-worker from Brazil and everything you say about them and the culture fits her to a tee!! I would love to win your drawing! PS. I am Roger Watson's mother in law.

I have been lurking for a couple of days; I laughed so hard at your bodily functions post that I cried. Since then, I have been faithfully checking your blog and constantly amused. I even told the story of your toilet mishap to my family, they laughed until they cried. Hope I win, the stuff looks amazing!threegirlsmom@q.com

I happened to pop over from the Crazy lady's blog and I like what I see. This is fun. My nephew just came home from a mission in Brazil, well two weeks ago now. Elder Ashton Ripley, from Alabama. Really cute kid.Congratulations on 200! Way to go girl.Throw my name it the pot and I'll be back! Blessings on your day!

Oh, oh, oh! Sign me up for this good stuff! My sister owns one of the blogs nominated on Mormon Mommy Blogs last month, and she recommended that I check out your blog. I have been checking it out every day since!I served a mission in Brazil a few years ago, and I just love it. I enjoy reading your comments and remembering all of the wonderful and annoying things about it! You often express my thoughts exactly, just worded better...Anyway, I want that stuff... Thanks!

Oh man, I just found your blog, (working from home rocks), read until my eyes crossed, and now coming back to enter, pick me pick me pick me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(trying my little boys tatic of begging;) Thanks for all the time killing while I was "working"! I have you bookmarked and will be back!! (jpwilkins@comcast.net)

I just found your blog and WOW!! I can't wait until I have some serious time to read even further back. Congrats on 200 posts! And how generous of you to offer all those fun gifts!Jennieporknbeans2720@hotmail.com

I found your blog when I went to vote for another blog on Mormom Mommy Blog. Congrats by the way.I started reading the other blogs that were finalist and got stuck on yours. Your writing is cute, insightful, and inspirational. I ended up voting for yours instead.I really never intended to post, I like being an unknown blog stalker, but I just can't resist.

This is the first time I have ever seen this blog. And I love it. My husband went on his mission in Brazil, we visited it on our honeymoon, and we hope that his job will continue to pursue some work there so that there is a chance we'll get transferred there for a few years. Both of us love the Brazilian people as well as all the stuff in this package! If only you could send catupiri (I have no idea how to spell that), but the pao de quiejo will suffice! What a great blog!

My eyes are watering, my mouth is watering, my soul is thumping . . . so I'm adding you to a post of mine. Oh the things a brazilian girl misses once she is not in brazil anymore. . . tiks, tisk . . . can we do a trade off? I'll send you some pb and j, licorice and some other wonderful stuff for your goodie bag. Ahh . . . and the water works starts again. . .

I am good friends with Steph at Diapers and Divinity, and I heard about your blog from her. I think being her actual - I go to the gym with her - friend should totally make me the coolest commenter here. (he,he) I love your blog. Stupid Question: Why are you in Brazil?

I LOVE Brasil. I lived in salvador for a 1.5 years and have been back twice... I love the people, the culture (although it is rather 'different' at times), the food, the language, and the gospel brazilian style (you know what I mean!) I just found your blog and am so anxious to read more!!

(just sent a comment but it showed an error....so sorry if it comes through 2x)! I just found your blog from someone else who just found it too! You are making people smile from all over the WWW! You are a great writer!!Loved your post about RS...can't imagine how scarry it was to attend church that first Sunday as a "misplaced American"!

I am also a first timer. Apparently everyone wants your gift bag! My dad and brother went on missions to Brazil. We had 2 exchange students from there and I lived there for a few months when I was 16. I can't wait to find out who wins. GREAT WRITING! I am adding you as a link on my blog!Lorraine2525@yahoo.comwww.tommyandlorraine17.blogspot.com

I found your blog through mormonmommyblogs and I can't stop reading. I've always wanted to live somewhere exciting and exotic--I live it through you. Thanks. And thanks for the exciting giveaway, count me in. I'm danidooley at yahoo dot com. And my blog is http://dooleysdoodles.blogspot.com

Okay, so when you said..."and no Tamra, you can not enter more than once..." I was like...HUH?? I have NEVER met another Tamra with the same spelling!! Well, I won't enter more than once even so!! Hoping for some FABULOUS gift from the land of Brazil!!

Please enter me in your fabo giveaway. I would love to win... I'm from NC and my email address because I know I'm going to win is lori@esinc.net.Glad to meet someone living in Brazil... Stop by anytime...

I love Brazil too. I went there for the very first time in July of 2008. I was invited there to attend my former foreign exchange student's wedding. Her family flew me down there to attend her very special ceremony. I was part of her wedding party and had the time of my life. She even hired an interpreter for me during the ceremony and reception so that I wouldn't feel left out. Brazilian weddings are the "bomb". The Priest was the brides uncle and it was very special. They even sang one song during the ceremony in English for me. I was honored. I can't wait to go back to Brazil.